Die With Your Boots On Lyrics

Die With Your Boots On

(Toby Keith/Jim Femino)

 

 Daddy was a gambler

 Back in seventy-two

 He had a taste for the nightlife and he

 Loved his booze

 He had a woman on one arm

 And a tattoo on the other

 It was hard to read I don't know what it said

 Somethin' about my mother

 

 I stood over his shoulder back in Bakersfield

 He had some rhinestone boots with those high ridin' heels

 He bet a ton of money

 On a hand I thought was dead

 When those sevens cleaned the table up

 He just looked around and said

 

 Sometimes you win

 Sometimes you won't

 Sometimes you beat that devil

 Sometimes you don't

 We're all just killin' time

 Til the good Lord calls us home

 And the best that you can hope for is to die

 With your boots on

 

 I drive a big rig from shore to shore

 I've got a woman beside me

 And my name out on the door

 Can't make no money

 If I don't outrun the man

 That's why you find me streakin' through the night

 Catch me if you can

 

 Sometimes you win

 Sometimes you won't

 Sometimes you beat that devil

 Sometimes you don't

 We're all just killin' time

 Til the good Lord calls us home

 And the best that you can hope for is to die

 

 Sometimes you win

 Sometimes you won't

 Sometimes you outrun that devil

 Sometimes you don't

 We're all just killin' time

 Til the good Lord calls us home

 And the best that you can hope for is to die

 With your boots on

 With your boots on